Process
Hide has no grain. Fitting a boot anyway.
A studio note. Cloth has a direction. Hide does not. You still have to walk in it.
Hides arrive from family in Wrigley — moose, caribou — dropped at the door in Enterprise as people pass through. They need soaking, stretching, smoking. Then a pattern that has to live on a material that will not behave like wool.
A boot on the bench is a fitting problem more than a decoration problem. The beadwork can wait. The foot cannot.
This is the work the shop is built on: not a runway first, a body first. The hide goes up on the line before it is a coat.
Studio note · photograph from the working archive
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